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Milton Avery (American, 1885–1965). Road to the Sea, ca. 1938. Transparent watercolor with small touches of opaque watercolor over charcoal on off-white, moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper, 22 1/2 x 30 5/8 in. (57.2 x 77.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 43.104. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 43.104_large_SL1.jpg)
Milton Avery (American, 1885–1965). Road to the Sea, ca. 1938. Transparent watercolor with small touches of opaque watercolor over charcoal on off-white, moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper, 22 1/2 x 30 5/8 in. (57.2 x 77.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 43.104. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 43.104_detail_Design_Scan.jpg)
Road to the Sea
Milton Avery
American Art
Like the modernist John Marin before him, Milton Avery described landscapes in a spare and summary way, using a variety of precisely placed touches to suggest the key details of a place. In this view of the rolling coastline of Canada’s rugged Gaspé Peninsula, parallel charcoal lines and strokes of blue wash together indicate the trees on a hillside. Unlike Marin (whose work is also on view here), however, Avery always anchored his shorthand details within an overall composition, based in a few simple outlines and extending to the edges of the sheet.
MEDIUM
Transparent watercolor with small touches of opaque watercolor over charcoal on off-white, moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper
DATES
ca. 1938
DIMENSIONS
22 1/2 x 30 5/8 in. (57.2 x 77.8 cm)
Frame: 28 x 36 x 1 1/2 in. (71.1 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower right: "Milton Avery"
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
43.104
CREDIT LINE
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Milton Avery (American, 1885–1965). Road to the Sea, ca. 1938. Transparent watercolor with small touches of opaque watercolor over charcoal on off-white, moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper, 22 1/2 x 30 5/8 in. (57.2 x 77.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 43.104. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 43.104_large_SL1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 43.104_large_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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